Andre Lalande

Andre Lalande (26 May 1913-19 October 1995) was a French Foreign Legion general during World War II, the First Indochina War, and the Algerian War.

Biography
Andre Lalande was born in Rennes, France in 1913, and he was wounded while serving in the French Army at the 1940 Battle of Narvik during World War II. He later served in the Free French in Lebanon, and he was wounded at the Battle of Bir Hakeim in May 1942. In August 1944, he commanded a Free French battalion which landed in Provence and took part in Operation Dragoon and the drive into southern Germany. After the war, he volunteered to serve as a colonel in French Indochina, and he was captured at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu on 7 May 1954. From 1958 to 1960, he served in the Algerian War, and he was promoted to Brigadier-General in 1961 and fought against the Tunisians during the Bizerte Crisis. In 1969, he became military governor of Lyon with the rank of general de division, and he was promoted to general de corps d'armee in 1970, going on to retire in 1973. He died in 1995.